Garbage

Throwing garbage in the public places reflects a negative image of the country. Despite the development of the UAE, you can see garbage spread out in many areas although the garbage cans are put everywhere. The UAE is not the only country where you can see garbage thrown in the public places but there are some other countries like India and Indonesia.

• Why do you think people do not throw their garbage in the garbage cans?
  
• What do you suggest these people?
  
• What is your job as a student in the community to solve this problem?

Photo by: Hend
Indonesia

Where can you build a factory?

As we know, there are many things that cause pollution. The smoke that comes from the factories is one of these causes that pollutes the air and causes serious diseases to humans.
Look at the picture carefully.

Created by: Mahra using the Paint programm

Where do you think is the best place to build a factory?
(choose A,B, C or D and give a reason to your answer).

Comment on the photo

This is a photo of one of the trees in Lebanon. As you can see, there is a letter that is sculpted on the trunk of the tree.

Photo by: Hend (Lebanon)

Write a comment on what you think about this.

Interesting activity about animals that don't live in the rainforest

The following picture includes ten pictures of animals. Five of these animals live in the rainforest and the others do not.

We used the photoshop program to create this picture.
The pictures that we used are from http://www.clipart.com/en/

• What are the five animals that do not live in the rainforest?

Mountains in Lebanon

These two photos were taken by Hend when she visited Lebanon.

As you can see, both photos show a natural habitat which is the mountains’ area. However, the mountains in each photo are different although they are in the same country which is Lebanon.

• What are the differences between the mountains in the first picture and in the second picture?

• Why do you think these mountains are different?

Rainforests

http://www.nature.org/rainforests/explore/photos.html

There are many rainforests in the world. These rainforests have some special features about the weather, the animals that live there and the plants. Share the information that you know about rainforests with your friends here.

Discussion on water sports in the UAE

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"Water sports like Scuba diving, swimming and boat racing are dangerous sports that people shouldn’t take part in unless they are trained to"

Do you agree or disagree with this statement.

(Post your comments and discuss your friends’ comments)

Interview about natural habitats in the UAE

General information about the speaker

This is an interview with one of the RAK HCT Women’s college teachers. She is Canadian and she lives in Ras Al Khaimah. She has been in the UAE since 2002. Her favorite hobbies are reading and swimming.

We interviewed her and we asked her some questions about the natural habitats in the UAE. We took some notes about the questions that we asked.

Photo by: Fatima

The interview

Question 1: What do you think about nature in the UAE?

Speaker: Nature in the UAE is amazing. It is different than where I lived in Canada. The desert in the UAE is different than the desert in Canada. In the UAE, there are different types of deserts. For example, I noticed that the desert in many areas in Abu Dhabi is flat whereas the desert in RAK contains many sand dunes. By the way, I like the UAE’s desert after the rain.

About the mountains she said:
Before I came to the UAE, I thought that the mountains are very scary because they don’t have green color on them. However, I discovered immediately after I lived in RAK that these gray and brown mountains are wonderful and mountains to me now are ‘Good luck sign’.

She also added :
I like to walk on the UAE’s beaches and I like to swim in the warm water. Seas in the UAE are warmer than Canada’s seas and they have a different color.


Question 2: What are your favorite natural habitats in the UAE? (e.g. mountains area, deserts or beaches)

Speaker: I like the beaches very much. I like to spend my time walking on the beach or swimming on the sea because the scene of the beaches and seas calm me down.


Question 3: What are your favorite activities in these places (e.g. skiing, swimming) and where do you usually practice them?

Speaker: I like to swim in the sea, join boat trips and I wish to see the camel racings in the desert.


Question 4: Have you ever joined a course that teaches you how to practice these activities?

Speaker: No, I didn’t


Question 5: What are the places that you advise tourists to visit in the UAE? Why?

Speaker: I advise them to attend camel racings and to join car pashing safaris in the desert.


Question 6: Do you like adventures? Why?

Speaker: Yes, I do. I like safe adventures.


Question 7: What are your advices to the UAE’s citizens, residents and tourists to protect these natural habitats?

Speaker: My number one advice is to throw the garbage in the garbage cans. I think that this should start from UAE’s citizens because I believe that if the citizens respect the rule, this means that there is a big chance that the tourists will respect the rules.

We like to thank Maria Mcmillan for giving us the chance to interview her.

Post some questions that you like to ask the speaker.

UAE's habitats

UAE's habitats

The UAE has a wide variety of natural habitats. You can see the mountains area, the deserts and the beaches and seas. You will spend a lovely time when you will go to any of these places. You can also practice a wide range of activities in each of these places.
The activities that you can practice in each habitat:

Mountains area

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http://www.tropicalisland.de/united_arab_emirates/ras_al-khaimah/images/DXB%20Ras%20Al-Khaimah%20-%20Hajar%20mountains%20with%20thornbushes%2001%205340x3400.jpg

Mountains are spread out in many areas in the UAE. You can see them in some Emirates like Ras Al Khaimah and Al Fujairah. Tourists, residents and citizens can do many activities like camping, mountains trekking and enjoying the scenes of the valleys, rocks and waterfalls.

Deserts

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You can see the yellow golden sand almost everywhere in the UAE. There are many deserts in the UAE and many of these deserts are spread out along the Emirates road. People can enjoy skiing on the sand, riding the motor bikes, camping and having enjoyable Safari.

Seas and beaches

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There are many beautiful beaches in the UAE. Tourists and anyone who likes water activities can spend a lovely time and learn a lot from the Scuba diving lessons in some centers in Al Fujairah. In addition, there are many activities that people can enjoy like fishing and water skiing. Tourists also will enjoy swimming and tanning under the sun.

Now: Post answers for these questions.

• What is your favorite habitat? Why?

• What are the activities that you participated in or you experienced? Did you like them? Why?